THE EVOLUTION OF THE FISHING VILLAGE: LANDSCAPE AND SOCIETY ALONG THE SOUTH DEVON COAST, 1086-1550
Written by Harold Fox
Published by Leopard's Head Press
in 2001
ISBN: 0904920437
THE EVOLUTION OF THE FISHING VILLAGE: LANDSCAPE AND SOCIETY ALONG THE SOUTH DEVON COAST, 1086-1550
Written by Harold Fox.
Stock no. 1829580
1st.
2001.
Softcover.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Leicester Explorations in Local History 1. This book is a full-length study of medieval fisheries, fishing families and fishing settlements. It deals with fishing and other activities of the shoreline with the consumption and marketing of fish and with the fishers themselves. The main focus is on the South Devon coastline but there are references to other south-western places and to other coasts. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations and maps. xviii and 208 pages including index. ISBN: 0904920437. Text block slightly grubby. Initials and date in ink to half-title page. Else contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Figures
- List of tables
- Series editor's foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The coast
- 2.1 A Classification of coastal settlement
- 2.1.i Port towns
- 2.1.ii Cellar settlements
- 2.1.iii Fishing villages
- 2.1.iv Quays
- 2.2 A tour of the coast
- 2.2.i The Exe Estuary
- 2.2.ii From Dawlish to Dartmouth
- 2.2.iii From Dartmouth to the Tamar
- 2.3 Conclusion
- 3 The Fisheries and the foreshore
- 3.1 Early evidence for fisheries
- 3.2 'Thirty shillings from the fishery this year'
- 3.3 Seigneurial fisheries
- 3.4 The technology of the fisheries
- 3.5 The foreshore: hunting and gathering
- 4 Consumption and distribution
- 4.1 Consumption
- 4.2 Marketing
- 4.3 Distribution and redistribution
- 4.4 The westwards reach
- 5 Fishing farmers and cellar settlements
- 5.1 Fishing farmers
- 5.1.i The Woodbury tithe payments
- 5.1.ii The Kenton cellar rents
- 5.1.iii The Stokenham custumals
- 5.2 The Cellar settlements
- 6 Transition: from cellar settlement to fishing village
- 6.1 Dating
- 6.2 Climatic change and coastal security
- 6.3 Social and economic contexts
- 7 Conclusion: fisheries and settlement history
- Indexes